mandag 9. november 2015

China one-child policy: Member of first generation looks back at rule's impact

Growing up in Shanghai in the 1980s, I never thought much of the fact that most of my classmates were only children. Years later I realized that I belonged to the first generation of China's strict one-child family planning policy, which started in the late 1970s and remained largely intact until the ruling Communist Party decided to scrap it to allow married couples nationwide to have two children. Read more